Between 1961 and 1984, the Soviet Union launched 18 probes to Venus as part of the Venera and Vega space programs. Of these, ...

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. As deep-space probes continue to explore throughout the solar system and beyond, scientists on the ...

NASA's asteroid-bound spacecraft Psyche is headed for an encounter with Mars on Friday (May 15) to get a boost from the Red ...

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth, nearing nearly 16 billion miles away. The probe now has two of its original ten science instruments still in operation as NASA ...

SpaceX launched twin satellites for NASA Wednesday that will study how the electrically-charged solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field, creating constantly changing and occasionally ...

China has launched a space probe that will travel to an asteroid near Mars to collect samples and find potential "groundbreaking" results. The Tianwen-2 probe launched Thursday from the Xichang ...

A pair of space probes cruising the solar system may be able to pass through the tail of the mysterious Manhattan-sized comet hurtling towards Earth — but only if the scientists operating them act ...

WASHINGTON — A 1,323-pound NASA probe that has been in space for 14 years is expected to burn up in Earth's atmosphere Tuesday night, according to the U.S. Space Force and NASA. The timing of Van ...

In space exploration, long-distance optical links can now be used to transmit images, films and data from space probes to Earth using light. But in order for the signals to reach all the way and not ...